HHA planning a park party

The group’s Donovan Park, known as the “Train Park” at the corner of Heights Boulevard and East 7th is in the midst of a makeover with a budget of around $100,000. The playground was installed by Heights Association volunteers in the mid-1990s when the group took over a piece of property that was slated to become a truck barn. The association then created a park with a train theme because of what was then the abutting MKT train line, now the MKT Bike Path.

The park’s play structures had deteriorated and become unsafe over the years, hence the refit. The association is hoping to have work done in time for a grand re-opening Saturday, Nov. 13, and, according to the HHA’s Kelly Simmons, is looking for volunteer performers.

The association is looking for performers and artists to help provide what Simmons said in an e-mail would be both “little kid and big kid entertainment” with “music, face painting, balloon making, clowns, caricature sketching, etc.”